Bats of the World

A Taxonomic and Geographic Database

Compiled and Edited by:
Nancy B. Simmons and Andrea L. Cirranello
American Museum of Natural History

Your search for Molossops griseiventer resulted in 1 species-level match:

Molossops Peters, 1866. Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiis. Berlin 1865: 575.

Dysopes temminckii Burmeister, 1854

Molossops griseiventer (Sanborn, 1941).
Publ. - Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. ser. p. 371, 385.
Colombian Dog-faced Bat

Dysopes temminckii

Colombia, west of Magdalena River on plains of Tolima, Espinal

Colombia

CITES - Not Listed (under Molossops temminckii) IUCN - Not Evaluated (raised from synonymy).

Previously included in temminckii, but distinct; see Ramírez-Chaves et al. (2023). Note that the results of Volleth et al. (2023) regarding karyotypes from Orinoco region that support the distinctiveness of griseiventer at the specific level do not appear to be correct; see Ramírez-Chaves et al. (2023).

References:

Ramírez-Chaves, H.E., D.M. Morales-Martínez, D. Martínez-Medina, P.A. Ossa-López, and F.A. Rivera-Páez. 2023. Revising the diversity within the Dwarf Dog-faced Bat, Molossops temminckii (Chiroptera, Molossidae), with the revalidation of the endangered Molossops griseiventer. Zookeys 1180: 237-256. Read article.

Sanborn, C.C. 1941. Descriptions and records of Neotropical bats. Publications Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 27(): 371-387. Read article.

Volleth M, K-G. Heller, C. Tidemann, H-S. Yong, M. Göpfert, S. Müller. 2023. Karyotype evolution in Vespertilionoidea: centromere repositioning and inversions in Molossidae (Chiroptera, Mammalia). Acta Chiropterologica 25(1): 1-33. Read abstract.